The Baeldung Weekly Review 33

I just announced the new Learn Spring course, focused on the fundamentals of Spring 5 and Spring Boot 2:

At the very beginning of 2014 I decided to start better documenting my reading habits and sharing them here with all of you.

The point is two fold – by curating and documenting, my reading has become more purposeful and diverse. Also – I believe that curation of good content brings a lot of value, helps people explore and allows the best stuff to raise to the top.

Another solid piece in the “Clean Testing” series from Petri. This one is discussing best practices of using DBUnit, in the context of an actual project with sufficient complexity. Don’t worry – once the problems are out of the way, there are solutions to be had.

The saga continues – a deep dive into Hibernate, this time going over the default mechanism for dirty checking (and the bytecode instrumentation alternative). I can see a book or a course coming out of this track.

If you ever struggled to get the same static analysis engine (such as PMD) working and using the exact same configuration file in both Eclipse and in your Maven build – this comes as a nice surprise. Cool beans.

2. Spring

A practical guide on building a simple REST API for quotations – for one of the Spring guides nonetheless. There are a few guides like this out already, but seeing how this is Spring eating their own dogfood – it’s a cool exercise and a solid resource.

3. Technical

Whichever way you lean – creating fixtures before the test or inside – this is a piece that takes the time to sit down and think through the arguments. Be ruthless with code duplication, mosey on over and read this one.

4. Comics

Continuing this recently introduced section in the review – my next favorite XKCDs after the ones from last week. Brilliant? I’d say so: